Vote like your nation's survival depends on it... because it does.

If God told Rick Perry, Michelle Bachmann, and Herman Cain to run for president, then God obviously wants Barack Obama to win.

It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.

Fight global warming! Be cool.

I believe in the power of giving.The more you give, the more you get. It is a supernatural cycle.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.

My trade and art is to live.

People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment.' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality.

Poetry isn't as relevant in the Western world as it is in Afghanistan. And not many people make time for something that doesn't feel relevant.

Why did you tell her I'm your boyfriend? Why doesn't she know about your real one? - Timmy He's English! And Mom...Mom hates foreigners! - Cat

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to.

For many of us who were born and raised in this country, including me, it's sometimes easy to forget how special America really is.

I've been incredibly blessed.